THE Norwegian is loving life in Glasgow and told how a couple of nights out with two of music’s biggest megastars helped smooth the passage.

Stefan Johansen: "I am enjoying Glasgow. It is a beautiful city, I have a good house and now I have a car and can explore Glasgow."

STEFAN JOHANSEN last night revealed that Beyonce and Justin Timberlake have helped him become an instant hit at Celtic.

The Norwegian ace has made a sparkling start to his career with the Scottish champions after a £2million January move from Stromsgodset.

Johansen has looked the part on the pitch and reckons the ease in which he has slotted into life off it has been the key.

The 23-year-old has cruised into the Parkhead fast lane and has already marked himself down as an integral part of manager Neil Lennon’s plans for an assault on next term’s Champions League qualifiers.

Johansen reckons Glasgow life suits him well and that a couple of nights out with two of music’s biggest megastars helped smooth the passage.

He said: “One of the things about coming to a club like this is that it is easy to settle down quickly because you have the options for a house and a car.

“I am enjoying Glasgow. It is a beautiful city, I have a good house and now I have a car and can explore Glasgow.

“I’m cooking for myself and it’s okay but you always want to find the good restaurants and you go to concerts like Justin Timberlake and Beyonce.

“The Commonwealth Games are coming up. It is a big city and there are a lot of things to do.

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A night with Beyonce has helped make Stefan Johansen's move to Celtic a bit less scary

“Scottish people are very kind. Everywhere you go they make you feel welcome. It is a beautiful country.”

Of course, not everything is a breeze for Johansen. The midfielder may have arrived as the Player of the Year in his homeland but that did not prepare him for the challenges ahead.

Johansen had been warned about the requirements of wearing the Hoops and the punishing pressure which accompanies playing for a team who are expected to win every game.

But Johansen has dealt with demands in the past as he helped drive unfashionable Stromsgodset to an unlikely title win in the months before he moved to Glasgow.

Yet still the spotlight of Celtic caught him out.

It’s not the pressures put on to players from outside the club which caught him out but the demands for success from within his own dressing room.

Johansen said: “You feel it immediately. You feel it before matches when you are with your team-mates on the coach.

“You can see that losing is never an option. You also have to win with style, that is the kind of pressure I think about.

“I do not think about what the media say, what the fans say, what the people around me say.

“If you are not playing well you disappoint your team-mates and your coach and that is just how it is.

“At Celtic it is about winning, I knew it when I came here.

“My agent and some of my team-mates in the national team told me that. They said it is a fantastic club but it is also a winning club.

“You have to get used to it but my mentality has always been like that.

“I played for a small club at Stromsgodset and we were never supposed to win the league but we had a lot of guys with a winning mentality and that is what you need when you go for titles.

”It is different being good in Norway and being good here. You can be good in Scotland also but this is Celtic.

“The pressure is huge. The fans expect you to win the league so when you come in to the team you have to play well.”